Well...take it like that...wot is a f2p game up to tier 7 or 8...depending on how good of a player you are...if you want to go futher...you need to either buy a pass(premium account) or a key(premium tanks) to access the tier 9s and 10s...there you go...happy now? Play what you can afford...not what you want...I also want to play pubg at 1080p on max...but I'm not going raging at bluehole to make the game run well on my pc for me to play it...and I also have no money to upgrade it to play because I spent all of them on wot...so i just make due with fornite...now you want to play tier 9 and 10...but can't afford or don't want to pay...so you will have to make due with tier 8 and lower....enjoy your stay.

Before I earned my first tier 8 premium tank (IS-6) I was grinding money with T1 Heavy. Tier 5 tank. Bought IS-7 and E5. Then I got IS-6 and T26E4 and everything went easier. Luckily I have more premiums now since these with preff MM are useless now (T26E4 not so, but IS-6 and WZ-111 are hard to play without gold).

Long story short, if you don't have premium account/tank, you can make money with tier 5-6-7. In order to save your money, put about 5 gold in tanks JUST IN CASE! Don't go full gold spam. And use small repairs

tier 5/6/7 should make a credit, no matter how poor you are. Tier 8 gets a little harder as the risk/reward comes into play, and so on with T9/10.

Don't run too many t8 and above the rest pays for it ...nicely. Some lovely tanks to play (not grind) at these tiers. Find a few you like and enjoy playing and they will easily pay for a bit of higher tier gaming.

You have multiple premium tanks and often play mid-tier tanks. You should have more than enough money, so it seems like you never bothered to check the details screen after a match or the cost of the supplies you stuff into your tank...

Until I didn't have any premiums I earned money with tier 5s. KV-1, T-34, T1 heavy, M4 Sherman, Pz 4. They provide nice amount of silver, good and variable gameplay. I made my way to Maus with these earners. This was years ago, but I think not too many things changed in the earning capabilities of these tanks.

40%? On your premiums or on all tanks? If it's all tanks. Why buy premium tanks or play mid tiers then? As that's why the repair gets bigger the higher you go. Because it looks like you play mostly tier 6-8, and your eights are premiums. So how do you struggle with income? Unless you spam premium ammo and use premium consumables all the time. I find it hard to believe you struggle with anything going by your most played tank list.

As my T26E4 has no issues making 50K + profit non premium on most games. As it's ammo costs next to nothing vs say the IS-6 that spends 20K each game on it.